Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.

I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.

I've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.